Biography Bruno Liljefors

Bruno Liljefors was born the 14 May, 1860 at Uppsala and studied from
1879 to 1882 at the Academy of Arts in Stockholm. The great
animal painter travelled in Germany, Italy, and France, but has been
little influenced by other painters.

He has spent nearly his whole life in Sweden, in the country, first near Uppsala, and, during the
last twenty years, some miles south of Stockholm. Liljefors is
pre-eminently the painter of the forest. It has been said of him
that he paints natural history, and, indeed, in his pictures everything
is reproduced with the exactness ofthe hunter and the lover of nature.

He delights in depicting the protective mimicry of animals, such as
evoking symphonies of color fr
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